Animals Really Are Amazing

The following is from an email I received from my friend Jenny in Atlanta that recently was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She's home and recovering and we're (the girls) are trying to plan a trip to go see her this weekend. Honey is Jenny's golden retriever that she's had as long as I've known her. I just had to share this story.

"Did I tell you about Honey? Well around September or October of last year, she started loosing her hair. All of it. It was so weird. She was real itchy and her skin turned a grayish color and it was awful. But she never acted sick which was good but I still took her to the vet (so many times) and they didn't know what was wrong with her so I took her to a specialist (a doggie dermatologist) and they didn't know what was wrong with her! , they said she was probably allergic to something environmental and wanted to do a skin test and biopsy her which was going to cost $1200!! So needless to say we were putting that off (mostly because she wasn't acting sick, she was eating and playing normal, she just looked awful). Well then all this cancer stuff happened. While I was in the hospital, her hair started to grow back. My mom and my sister came up with this theory that she could smell the cancer and she was so stressed out about it that her body was doing that. Losing her hair or whatever. And do you know that ever since I have been home and she has been cuddling with me resting... her hair is growing back! It is the weirdest thing. I talked to the doggie dermatologist about it and she said dogs can definitely smell cancer and that researchers are doing tests to use dogs to detect cancer before it can be detected medically. Pretty cool, huh? So Honey girl is doing good. She has a brother now, Coal, he is good too."